#201: Bubble redux preview & 20/20 hindsight!
Thinking Basketball
Thinking Basketball
4.8 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
We preview the Conference Finals, but first! A look back at the Celtics-76ers series and the Lakers closing out the Warriors. We also discuss the “certainty” of narratives that will emerge in the next month, despite the parity and current uncertainty around teams, and how that impacts players like Nikola Jokic and Anthony Davis. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to another show. |
| 0:14.0 | Cody, this is one of those shows that I feel like |
| 0:20.0 | will get lost in the shuffle of everything that's happening every 24 48 hours in these |
| 0:26.0 | NBA playoffs. We're finally recording here on a day off. We're going to have every |
| 0:31.0 | other day in the conference finals. We're going to have the NBA finals. We're going to crown a champion. There's |
| 0:34.6 | going to be narratives galore. There's going to be legacy talk. But I just want to, oh man, we're |
| 0:39.4 | at the midpoint of the playoffs. And I just want to, just want to get out our basketball pipe and smoke it and talk about what we've seen, what's going to happen going forward. |
| 0:50.0 | I love this part of the playoffs because we as we'll talk about today here's what we're going to do we're going to talk about what we have saw in the second round that closed out over the weekend. I have some thoughts on some of the games and some of the |
| 1:03.2 | series. We're going to preview the Eastern and Western Conference finals. We're down to the |
| 1:08.4 | final four. But before we get to the preview, I also just want to stop and reflect on like how we don't |
| 1:15.8 | know who's going to win the NBA championship right now. |
| 1:19.3 | We don't know what's going to happen. |
| 1:20.9 | We have at least a couple great series left on the horizon. I'm salivating |
| 1:25.8 | over this Anthony Davis, Nicola Yolkich, immovable force meets an unstoppable object. |
| 1:32.2 | Did I flip that phrase? |
| 1:33.8 | Who cares? |
| 1:34.3 | You know what I'm talking about. |
| 1:36.8 | Just the defense, the offense. |
| 1:38.9 | We don't know. |
| 1:39.8 | We don't know what's going to happen. |
| 1:41.1 | We'll talk about it. |
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